The wolf wants rabbit stew and tries to tempt the small bunny from his burrow. The bunny outwits him and makes his mother proud.

In 1937, a young trumpet player called Doc leaves Harlem with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Eight hundred miles away, a little girl named Pearl is fighting a child’s war against poverty and paternal abuse in a Chicago tenement. Spain’s defeat leads directly to World War II. For the honor of Spain and self, Doc heads off to fight another war. Meanwhile, Pearl discovers the power of her voice and begins her own odyssey.By 1946, the war is over and New York is sizzling with the sounds of bebop. Doc returns to find peace in the music, but everything changes when the band’s new singer walks into the club. Her voice is as deep and arresting as her dark eyes, and her name takes up residence in his mind. Pearl.After a turbulent start, they ease into a healing love and claim Harlem as their small piece of America. But soon a new war is rumbling. As a deadly strain of heroin floods their streets, Doc is targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Pearl falls under the scrutiny of a stalker with a badge. Doc learns that everything is linked, and must revisit a chilling question he still carries from Spain: What constitutes an act of war? And what is he prepared to do about it?

It's a playful battle of brawn vs. brains when a plotting pooch cooks up a plan'and a stew!?to get rid of three wickedly clever rabbits that keep raiding his vegetable garden. But the clueless canine is no match for the sly creatures, and before you can say "jack rabbit," the dog has himself a delicious (rabbitless) stew while the rabbits get credit for helping'and the leftovers as well!

Read the Foreword Clarion book review of The Life of Stuart O. Van Slyke. In this autobiography compiled from old diaries and letters, Stuart O. Van Slyke recounts his adventures as a young man born to hardship in the early 20th century. He recalls how he overcame his background through his own grit, imagination, and the support of his family and friends. From a 21st century point of view, Stuart's unsupervised childhood seems carefree. Virtually on his own from the beginning, Stuart worked his way through college, where he was introduced to the Army through ROTC, and was the first of his family to graduate. He was called to active duty on June 30, 1941, as a second lieutenant, but his true military career started on Pearl Harbor day. This turned out to a pivotal event in the shaping of his life. One of the highlights of the book is his service in the North African Campaign and his passionate yet sensitive command of the 78th Fighter Control Squadron, and later on the staff of the Allied Air Command of Corsica. The war's ending found him in Korea in military government in 1945, where he assisted in the start of South Korea's return to the community of countries who were no longer enslaved or ruled by despots. He had a real bird's eye view of the development of the 38th Parallel dilemma that plagues us even today. At the age of 29 in 1946, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and a civilian again, who wondered what he was now going to do.

When a deadly virus has decimated most of the world’s population, ReAnn found herself embarking on a grim quest to locate what is left of her family, living and dead. After rescuing two surviving grandchildren, Jordan and Karis, from the clutches of an insane woman, ReAnn then heads for the mountains of Montana. Despite the swath of destruction that litter their path, she ends up with a group that includes Shaun, a longtime friend, Gavin, a brother, and Bella, daughter of a woman she has rescued from a group of brutal marauders. Out of this few remnants of humanity, earth will find the new seeds to regenerate itself. In a world unmasked of its false gods and failed beliefs, ReAnn carves a path that she hopes will be more worthy of the blessings of the planet and the powers that truly guide it.